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Topic Animal Adaptations

Common Core Standards RL.2 4.Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. RI.2 2.Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. 4.Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. 7.Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. 8.Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. 10.By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range RF.2 f.Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. e.Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. W.2 2.Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section 7.Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).

Suggested Student Objectives: Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills: Main idea and Details;Infer/Predict;Adjectives;Problem-Solution paragraph;Dictionary Entry

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ActivitiesLearning Outcome Identify and describe the main idea of a nonfiction text using section headings and textual details.D urationApproximately 50 minutes Necessary Materials//Provided//: Direct Teaching Example Chart, Independent Practice Worksheet //Not Provided//: //The Shark: Silent Hunter// by Renée Le Bloas-Julienne, chart paper, markers, copies of sections of //The Shark//or other nonfiction books from classroom or school libraryLesson Plan will discuss how headings in nonfiction can help us determine the main idea of that section of the book. I will choose a section in //The Shark: Silent Hunter// by Renée Le Bloas-Julienne. I will read the heading and think aloud about what the main idea of this section is. I will read the section and identify the main details in the text. I will use those details and the section heading to determine the main idea of the section. (See Direct Teaching Example Chart provided in Teacher and Student Materials below.)**Watch a Video Teacher Tip: Modeling ** Ask: How did I determine the main idea of the section? Students should respond that you looked at the section heading and thought about what the section may be about. You then read the section and paid close attention to important details. Finally, you used the text details and the section heading to determine what the section was mostly about. will choose another section from the book to read. We will discuss the heading and what we think the main idea is. We will read the section, determine the important details in the text, and use the section heading to help us identify the main idea of the section.
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Assessments will choose another section of the book to read and determine its main idea. You will explain how you identified the main idea. (Student Independent Practice is provided below.) Note: Teachers will need copies of sections of this book for students or other nonfiction books from the library.
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